Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-12
HOME AFFAIRS.
FATAL EXPLOSION IN A PENN.
SYLVANIA MINE.
Serious Riot at Denver-Floods in
New York-A Train Wrecker's
Observation-Disclosures Vendetta.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO 7HE srooBD-umQN.l
SACRAMENTO RACERS.
Haggin's Horses in the East-Ben All in
Good Trim.

GOOu Trim.
New York, April 11th.-The eighteen
Ransho del Paso thoroughbreds that were
unloaded at Monmouth Park last week
were sorry-iooEing lot. Their coats were
rough, their heads dropped, and their legs
were swollen and stiff. One of the two
year -olds refused to quit the car until a
sIIrcingle with ropes attached was fastened
around its body. Guenn, the only animal
in the string known in the East, did not ap-
pear to be Suburban winner as she slowly
walked from her narrow stall down the in
clined platform to the ground. The hlly.
though pronounced sound and well, was
thin and haggard. The eighteen horses
weighed 800 pounds less than they did
when their overland journey was begun,
each baving lost about 100 pounds in ten
DAYS. Only once in that time did they
have an opportunity to lie down and sleep,
and that was at Cheyenne, where trainer
Byrnes, taking advantage of g delay on the
rail, got all the string, with one exception,
into warm roomy boxes.
The older animals of the Haggin stable
that have wintered at Monmouth Park
make up for any deficiency in the new
corners. To use common phrase, they
feel their oats"
Colonel Morrel has the track in racing
condition, and it is regular thing nova
days for some of the early beasts to cover
half a mile in 80 or So seconds. With the
condition of such weather as that OF Fri
day and Saturday they will soon get down
TO so seconds, and 40 and possibly As. .
Ben Ali is not q sick morse. H3, bied
once from the nose late last season, afte1
his severe trial at Sheepshead Bay, and
only once. He had been full of cold and
:, g. dax-s bafora tho trial
The bleeding was not the result oi
| hemorrhage. Ben Ali never bled after the
race, and indeed has never lost drop OF
| blood on any other occasion than the one
mentioned. At Monmouth Park no one
has the slightest doubt that he will be in
condition to keep all engagements this
year Milton and Tyrant spend their time
| between walking slowly around the track
and standing up to their knees in the
branch, both being shaky on their legs
| Tyrant never appears without groom al
| his head and boy on his back Firenz
improves slowly, but being perfectly soun6
aud well will be ready to come to the pos
when wanted Alf Estll (the Suburban
winner, so-called) appears on the track
wearing a muller that reaches from hi:
| withers to his ears. One would never TAKE
him to be a sick horse; yet, when Mr.
| Babcock looks at him the veterans hear
sinks down in his boots. The horse ha:
been coughing, and possibly is not yet re
covered from the effects of dose OF hin
seed oil and turpentine which was admin
istered to him four weeks ago. On Thurs
dav he was at work on the track and
coughed some when he returned to the
stable He was out again Friday and
coughed only once after exercising. Or
Saturday he appeared again showing sign:
of improvement, but still failing to cheer
Babcock.